"The Green House" and "The Time of the Hero," by Mario Vargas Llosa.
"The First Forty-Nine Stories," by Ernest Hemingway.
"Trainspotting" and "Glue," by Irvine Welsh.
"Small Gods," by Terry Pratchett.
"Watchmen," by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
"From Hell," by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell.
"Marginal Voices: Selected Short Stories," by Julio Ramón Ribeyro (only English translation of him I could find).
"Chronicles: Volume One," by Bob Dylan.
"On The Road," by Jack Kerouac.
"The Road" and "Blood Meridian," by Cormac McCarthy.
"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," by Ken Kessey.
"Preacher," by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon.
there are many problems in our times
but none of them are mine
1984 by George Orwell. Isn't it on every "books to read before you die" list? Well now it's on this one.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Once again, it's on every list anyway, might as well be on this one.
Dracula by Bram Stoker.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand." Leonardo Da Vinci
I'll second 1984 and Good Omens and Catch-22. Some of my favorites! Along with Cuckoo's Nest, Tamora Pierce (at least one book!), P&P, and hey! Harry Potter hasn't been mentioned! And because it's rather huge, it must be on the list!
Other than that, I'm throwing in some poetry! Shakespeare, Donne, Plath, Behn, and some of that vein. And because I'm becoming obsessed, some mythology, and the earlier the better! So Tale of Gilgamesh would be a must.
***Under the Responsibility of S.P.E.W.*** (Sadistic Perplexion of Everyone's Wits)
Medieval Lit! Come here to find out who Chaucer plagiarized and translated - and why and how it worked in the late 1300s.
I came into this world wrinkled and ugly. And no matter how much I accumulate here, it's a short journey. I will go out of this world wrinkled and ugly. So I enjoy life.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
A Room With A View by E.M.Forster
Jude the Obscure by Thomas HardyT
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
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Had I the heavens embroider'd cloths,
I would spread the cloths under your feet.
But I being poor, have only my dreams,
So tread softly, for you tread on my life.
Animal Farm, by George Orwell.
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Noughts and Crosses Trilogy, by Malorie Blackman.
No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy.
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel.
Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan.
The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak.
That's my list.
"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction." ~ Oscar Wilde
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